Slow lazy breakfasts are the best

# Chapter 354

Less and less do I go out for food, the food we make at home is so much better. But we go out for social reasons and that is reason enough. But a $30 breakfast out with mediocre food is not the point. What you are really going out for is the experience, the ambiance and the shake-up in your routine, the different atmosphere is what we are really going to get. You just thought it was breakfast. Had the breakfast been astonishing, that would have been just icing on the cake, but the American version of that is quick, about eating, and right back out the door to the next thing. The European and Asia versions of breakfast are much slower and luxurious and crafted to ease you into your day, not be one more thing to check off on your list.

Lingering over croissants and coffee is very different than a waitress asking you five times if there is anything else they can get you (which is a mild indirect way of saying “if you are done eating please leave”). Lingering over a slow lazy breakfast is a far superior way to start your day and energize your plans and solidify your strategies. As I said the Europeans have perfected this, and it was absolutely one of the best things ever while visiting with our children in Germany when they were in boarding school - a big breakfast spread, and plenty of time to enjoy it in a beautiful comfortable room. I guess the point of writing this is to show the scale and possibilities that we all have in the ways that we begin our mornings, where, and how. As I sit here writing this on our porch, which is our usual breakfast nook, the improvement over the restaurant we just left leaves you gobsmacked. 1. My coffee is far superior 2. No irritating teenybopper music inanely playing in the background, 3.much more comfortable chair, 4. No pressure to exit quickly 5. And it didn’t cost me $30 for two small mediocre breakfasts.